Now somewhat advanced in age, Khazarin Vorn once fought for the Silver Empire in the East against the Bloodlands. It was there he served as a siege-crossbowman and combat medic, and it was there he sustained a career-ending injury which resulted in his dismissal from the military. Deemed not worthy of magical healing, Khazarin spent many years overcoming his injuries while tending to his farmland and family in Mestria. Some three decades later, Khazarin was again struck by misfortune when a deadly bout of the Bloody Gasp swept the Mestrian farmlands. Despite his best efforts, he could not aid his ailing wife and child. Desperate, Khazarin turned to the Sylvan Mage tower for healing. Once again they spurned him resulting in the brutal and drawn-out deaths of his family, a slight which he has never forgiven. His own health now stricken by sickness, his lands wasted and insect ridden, Khazarin collected his old soldiers gear and made for the cities. As luck would have it, his old squad leader Yori Ironhand was recruiting for a mercenary company. Yori found Khazarin destitute and begging in the streets, his weathered siege-crossbow strapped tightly to his starved body, and wasted no time offering the desperate dwarf a job.